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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
[Re: Dan90210 ☮]
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05/24/20 12:30 AM
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Hate snakes,you Need a semi auto follow the splashes
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 12:31 AM
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Learn to shoot with muscle memory and do not rely on the sights. You can be crazy good up to 10 yards. I hit a running mouse at 10 yards with my pellate gun. Impressive! More so if it's a handgun! I can split a match at 10 yards with my pellet handgun... But from a fixed position and fixed Target. Might have to grab these Snakes by the back of the neck and then do them execution-style. It's just such a difficult shot that I can't imagine if you made it that it wasn't just by luck. Will not stop me from trying though.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 12:32 AM
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I might also point out that shooting at anything in water cause and will cause ricochets. Very dangerous practice.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 12:36 AM
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Real outdoorsman ain't scared of a harmless snake that can't hurt you. I'm no outdoorsman. Nor am I a mechanic, electrician, landscaper, arborist, plumber, roofer, hairstylist, politician, writer, musician, IT pro, I also don't do fences, not a philosopher, also not a dog trainer nor am I a painter... however I can do all of those and more just well enough to make me dangerous...and make things fun! Are you a joker, a smoker and a midnight toker? Night yaking while high and armed hunting snakes - what could go wrong?
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 12:44 AM
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I might also point out that shooting at anything in water cause and will cause ricochets. Very dangerous practice. Yes yes. I wear my safety lenses. I clear my shooting lane and understand my backstop, deflection and ricochet possibilities based on conditions, ammo, terrain etc. I've been doing this bruh. I won't shoot my eye out. Never thought shooting a pellet gun at snakes would be so controversial.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 12:45 AM
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Real outdoorsman ain't scared of a harmless snake that can't hurt you. I'm no outdoorsman. Nor am I a mechanic, electrician, landscaper, arborist, plumber, roofer, hairstylist, politician, writer, musician, IT pro, I also don't do fences, not a philosopher, also not a dog trainer nor am I a painter... however I can do all of those and more just well enough to make me dangerous...and make things fun! Are you a joker, a smoker and a midnight toker? Night yaking while high and armed hunting snakes - what could go wrong? Some people call me the space cowboy... Some call me the gangster of love.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 12:52 AM
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Real outdoorsman ain't scared of a harmless snake that can't hurt you. I'm no outdoorsman. Nor am I a mechanic, electrician, landscaper, arborist, plumber, roofer, hairstylist, politician, writer, musician, IT pro, I also don't do fences, not a philosopher, also not a dog trainer nor am I a painter... however I can do all of those and more just well enough to make me dangerous...and make things fun! I hear ya on that dog trainer thing. My knuckle head goes with me on the boat but she drives me nuts half the time. Herding breed? Lab, she's full of energy and wants to show you.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 01:03 AM
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Real outdoorsman ain't scared of a harmless snake that can't hurt you. I'm no outdoorsman. Nor am I a mechanic, electrician, landscaper, arborist, plumber, roofer, hairstylist, politician, writer, musician, IT pro, I also don't do fences, not a philosopher, also not a dog trainer nor am I a painter... however I can do all of those and more just well enough to make me dangerous...and make things fun! Sissy Carry a machete and be done with it
call it what you will...he is not definitely not anywhere near the top of the list for QB's that I would choose needing a FG or touchdown drive late in the game.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 01:06 AM
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I never kill a good snake. I had a friend that was bitten by a cotton mouth in East TX. Not something you want to go through. He had a scar from his knee to ankle and 2" wide. It killed a fair amount of calf muscle.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 01:11 AM
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had one of these crawl on the back of the boat on fork a couple of yrs ago, took a while to figure out what it was. Texas coral snake, crawled up and sat on the gunnel for about 30 mins. and left. glad I didn't mess with it.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 01:12 AM
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had one of these crawl on the back of the boat on fork a couple of yrs ago, took a while to figure out what it was. Texas coral snake, crawled up and sat on the gunnel for about 30 mins. and left. glad I didn't mess with it. Wow, I've never seen one. They say their mouths are usually to small to bite people.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 01:20 AM
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had one of these crawl on the back of the boat on fork a couple of yrs ago, took a while to figure out what it was. Texas coral snake, crawled up and sat on the gunnel for about 30 mins. and left. glad I didn't mess with it. Wow, I've never seen one. They say their mouths are usually to small to bite people. nope, they can get ya about any where, short fanged but still deadly. I had no clue at the time. I only remember seeing 3 of the yellow rings, snake was about 18" or so
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 01:41 AM
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I remember back in the late '70's there was a crazy full auto .177 freon operated machine pistol (think M3 greasegun) that could shoot a rope of BBs. Great snake killer on the lake.....until a couple of guys got spotted with one by a LEO in a helicopter.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 02:08 AM
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They are harmless why shoot them? Bruh...water Snakes!! They try to get onto and into kayaks... if their motivation is to seize my ship my motivation is to eliminate them... If they give me the chance. You are in there habitat.
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Re: Shooting water Snakes...
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05/24/20 02:30 AM
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Had one on the front porch yesterday morning. Gave it a few nudges with a frog gig..... it exited ....... I pissed one off at fork in the late 80's..... throwing a topwater at what I thought was a frog from the head in the grass next to the bank. Dang thing came at the boat and was standing up like a cobra..... I would estimate 8 feet long. My brother knocked it out with a boat paddle... we idled off.... it came too and swam to another boat and they got busy. Good times.
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